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As 66704 sits while its train is loaded at Arcow Quarry, 66760 heads south on the S&C with its train from the Quarry.
66704 has worked into the Quarry on 6M31 from Hexthorpe and is having its first part of the train loaded. 66760 is working 6M38, Arcow Quarry to Bredbury, with its loaded train after running to Blea Moor to run round its train.
14th September 2017 at 1255, nice to be able to photograph to Freights at once on the S&C
Just outside of Page, AZ, near the Glen Canyon Dam, there is a place that is like the famous "Wave" but does not require a permit or 3-mile walk. I corrected the exposure and tonal issues with Lightroom and Photoshop (32-bit HDR) then finish in 16-bit with Perfect Effects and Viveza.
Take a walk in the snow mountains,find blog link : bit.ly/2nXuVlk Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/niidbag
Bit of a stitched panorama of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. I kind of like the central composition of the tree here, I did consider not stitching as many images together, but even with the panorama it works for me…
Bit of a struggle to get here for sunrise, but at least I got lucky with some clearing in the sky for a few minutes... Old man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland
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Note: This picture is not taken by me. Took it from internet and processed it a bit.
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Tonight is the night to celebrate for all the millions of the fans of A.R.Rahman around the world. Tonight is history... Atlast our own muscial legend A.R.Rahman was honoured with not just one... but two oscars... I was just screaaaaaaaming at my house when his name was announced first for the Original score of SlumDog Millionaire. I got goosbumps when he thanked god in Tamil words.
He deserves it sooo much. I usually dont post more than one pic in a day. But tonight I am making an exception...
We fans bow our heads to the legend... Jai Hooooooooo...
SLUMDOG MILLIONARE rocked the oscar stage tonight... Woooooooooooh !!!!!
Just after watching 30 mins of the movie I knew that the movie had a phenomenal cinematography work... and I am glad it got an award for that...
And it got the PICTURE OF THE YEAR award. Tonight cant get any better than this.... HATS OFF to the entireeeee team.... SLUMDOG MILLIONARE ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Note: This picture is not taken by me. Took it from internet and processed it a bit.
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Some of you a bit west, say in Texas and Oklahoma, may be used to seeing scissor-tailed flycatchers. For Indiana, they are a rare visitor--rarer still to find one nesting! This bird is about 20 minutes from my home, but birders from all over the state have come to see it. Yesterday it would leave the nest for varying lengths of time, then return to and stay in the nest (nest not in photo). There have been sightings of a male, but no documentary photos. This photo was shot at quite a distance, hand held, and highly cropped.
At the end of the same dive with the flame lobster (previous post), we stopped in the shallows to search for grass squid.
Expectations were low. These squid are tiny - think the size of your pinky fingernail. They are floating in a soup of sargassum bits and pieces, so they are well camouflaged. And to top it all off, we are in shallow water (2-3m) with waves rolling through to slosh this slurry of stuff back and forth. Placing them in the viewfinder is hard but even if you can do that, you still need to get the camera's autofocus to lock on to the right thing. I have plenty of blurry pics and a bunch of sharp pics of seaweed fragments. But all you need is one to work!
Note, this was shot with ambient light (because we were so shallow). Without strobes, the shutter speed could be raised above 1/250th, which was definitely helpful.
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Taken a bit too far, for sliders sunday…
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See the first comment box below for the standard version, the original from which all arose, and a screenshot of this version's photoshop file with the expanded layers panel and channels panel.
After converting to black and white in Lr, and cropping, it was brought into Ps. I liked the version edited as usual, but then decided to see what would happen if I slud things further.
I like the overlay glow that is often created with editing for an Orton effect. The first way I learned was from Tony Kuyper's tutorials. At the top of the layer stack a curves adjustment layer set to screen blend mode is created. Then create a merged up through it layer. Set it to multiply blend mode and use gaussian blur. Group those layers and possibly add a mask to the group, and possibly reduce opacity of the group.
I recently came across another way to do it in the Practical Photography magazine. They say duplicate the background layer a couple times but since I'd already done a lot of editing with quite a few layers, I created a new merged up layer at the top of the layer stack, then duplicated it. One of those layers is set to Multiply and blurred. The other is set to Screen and left as is. They are grouped and a curves adjustment layer is added to the group. The line is pulled up and left to lighten the group.
I ended up using both those ways of creating an Orton effect, and sliding opacity of each a bit for this.
Happy Sliding!
A bit late, but Happy Holidays! Better late than never, right?
Seen here is NYS&W SD40-2 3024 parked on the main along the Southern Division in Butler, New Jersey for the tree-lighting at Park Place. Previously, 3024 was decked out with Christmas lights, but were unfortunately taken down moments before photographing this scene.
December 7, 2024
Shot at Craigo is salvageable, tiny bit more zoom than required previously. Making a solum change, again. 66 instead of a 70, all be, should be down for 6R38 to Irvine Cale. 10 tanks in tow, reasonable for S48 these days. For future shots in mind for northbounds, ideally sit on the guardrail to eliminate the telegraph wires and extra fencing (off picture, to the left)
This takes a bit of explaining. At the group We’re Here! we select a photographic challenge every day based on a new Flickr group we take turns picking. One of the most loved of our members is the funny, kind, clever, creative, and very talented Ruth Raymond, aka ruthlesscrab. Today’s challenge is to copycat ruthlesscrab and the group we are visiting is Ruthless Copycats. Ruth is the founder of yet another group, Fruits and Vegetables on a Tripod. Check it out!
So, all of that is the background for my photograph here. The photo I chose to copycat can be seen in the first comment box below.
I love this metal Violin keychain, with tiny gems on its bridge. I bought it from the Symphony Hall, Birmingham but didn't feel to put my keys on it because it's VERY beautiful!
So, I put this gorgeous keychain on my black coloured table and closed my eyes... I feel like the violinist "Niccolo Paganini" playing his violin in my room.
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Bit of imagination ~ I made this one for "Macro Mondays"
NC2E
If you get to spend a bit of time in the high altitude Himalayas you soon start to appreciate the old Nepalese pilots adage that “we don't fly when there are clouds, because the clouds have rocks in them”. Peaking though the clouds here is the incredible spire of Ama Dablam at 6,812 metres (22,349 ft). Ama Dablam translates to "Mother's necklace" as the long ridges on each side are said to resemble the arms of a mother (ama) protecting her child, and the hanging glacier thought of as the dablam, the traditional double-pendant containing pictures of the gods, worn by Sherpa women. Shot on Fuji Velvia slide film. Nepalese Himalaya, Nepal
Love Life, Love Photography
Regular visitor to this delightful location at this time of the year and often wonder how many of the students actually take time to notice this amazing setting. The security guard that Bruce and I spoke to didnt have a clue suggesting it was a wattle tree....duh.
Nikon 14-24
From Rerik I drove to Kühlungsborn. Another one of the old sea side resorts.
And like in the other towns with that kind of reputation I had difficulties adapting to them. I prefer smaller places with less people. Of course it was really nice just not really my type of place. At least not in direct comparison.
This isn't velvet, or a fine silky dress, or some strange sun storm, or a complicated fractal graph. This is simple sand, and it is absolutely unbelievable how the water and the wind are able to transform the sand. Day after day, year after year, age after age. Here, in a detail of the famous Antelope Canyon in Arizona, it is possible to see all the five elements gathered in a single image: the earth describes a wave, molded along the time by the wind and burned by the sun.
An early Sunday morning at Port Waikato.
This section of the beach is quite flat and is littered with these small stones. When the wave rushes in and then sucks back, the movement of the stones in the wash creates musical tones a bit like a xylophone, it was quite mesmerising...
Bit more recent than the previous couple of photos, also on a ferry in Istanbul, longer exposure with a tripod.
Clouds are moving in a bit later today, so I played around creating my own caustics during predawn hours and while folks in the house were still asleep. Ingredients: dark room, water bottle, back of an old Mac, light source , my iPhone , one hand to hold the iPhone, the other hand to hold the light source, two fingers very slightly agape to cover light source so it’s a smaller light source. And then while holding all that, take a photo. Next time I’m getting out the tripod.
Reminds me a bit of Jack and the bean stalk :-)
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